Back-end Engineer 
Location: GR, I, Athens
Department: Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Pinnatta is the world’s first interactive multimedia messaging platform.It takes personal communication to the next level, enabling smartphone owners to create, share and experience unique greeting cards and amazing messages. Senders can select among a huge variety of highly personalized options, available for every special or everyday occasion, while recipients can interact with their Pinnattas by tapping, blowing, dragging, tilting, rubbing or even shaking their device.The service is currently available for iOS and Android.Founded in 2011 in Sunnyvale, CA (U.S.A.), the company -that also retains a production office in Athens (Greece)- is backed by US, Russian, Chinese and Greek investors.

Job description:
Pinnatta, οne of the fastest growing Greek startups, is looking for a talented (junior to mid) software Engineer to join our Engineering team in Athens and particiapte in the evolution of our innovative service.The company is backed up by US, Russian, Chinese and Greek investors and retains offices in Silicon Valley (California, US) and Athens (Greece). If you have a very strong understanding of what it takes to build a scalable service and want to become part of an extremely talented team, with global aspect and huge potential, feel free to contact us! ResponsibilitiesDevelop API and services that will be used in real time, from millions of peopleEnsure that the code will perform, scale and is secureDebug, fix code and help developers in debugging their code through the higher level insight you haveTroubleshoot reported cases to the customer service and draft RFCs that naturally occur from the reported casesMake real time database scheme transitionsEnsure the validity at any time of the data we keep, through checks, scripts and inspectionHandle big data in real time or process them in batch so as to provide views and insightsConsult on technical issuesWrite documentation

Requirements:
Always be ready to accept new challenges and responsibilitiesHave a solid knowledge of PHP 5.3 using it for development for 2+ yearsBe familiar with OOP and Design PatternsHave implemented APIs in the pastHave worked with third party APIs Ability to setup, administrate and troubleshoot a Linux serverAbility to configure, administrate, troubleshoot an Apache serverWorking experience with at least one of SQL and/or NoSQL Database Working experience of caching layersExperience in message passing mechanisms and implementation of asynchronous codeStrong knowledge of HTTP protocol and JSON formatJavaScript, HTML and CSS fluencyBelieve that quality is a discipline that must be exercised in every levelTeam playerGood communications skills Nice to have:Previous experience in cloud IAASExperience with at least one web frameworkAbility to analyze and present big dataPortfolio of open source projects or reference from private projectsExperience in internationalization (i18n)

Benefits:
Very competitive salaryStock options packageExtra yearly bonuses based on poth personal and company's overall performance Health and Dental Insurance Trip to Silicon ValleyFlexible working hours